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"Cowboy Take Me Away" is a song by American country music group Dixie Chicks, written by Martie Maguire and Marcus Hummon. It was released in November 1999 as the second single from their album Fly. The song's title is derived from a famous slogan used in commercials for Calgon bath and beauty products.
"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Fly is the fifth studio album (second major label) by American country music band the Dixie Chicks, released on August 31, 1999 through Monument Records.Compared to their previous album and breakthrough Wide Open Spaces (1998), the group had a stronger hand in writing, co-writing five of the fourteen tracks.
Nine singles were released from Fly, including country No. 1s "Cowboy Take Me Away" and "Without You". Dixie Chicks albums continued to place in the list of the 50 best-selling albums in American history over a half-decade after they were released. [32]
Wide Open Spaces is the fourth studio album and the major label debut of American country music band Dixie Chicks.It was their first record with new lead vocalist Natalie Maines, and became their breakthrough commercial success.
Call You Cowboy; Cheyenne (1906 song) Coca-Cola Cowboy; The Colorado Trail (song) Cool Water (song) Cowboy (Kid Rock song) Cowboy Band; Cowboy Beat; Cowboy Boogie; Cowboy Casanova; The Cowboy in Me; Cowboy Man; The Cowboy Rides Away; Cowboy Song (Thin Lizzy song) Cowboy Take Me Away; Cowboy Yodel Song; A Cowboy's Born with a Broken Heart ...
Americana details pervade the lyrics as the song details the correspondence as a relationship forms between the two, despite the insurmountable distance. The last letter from the soldier mentions that "it's gettin' kinda rough over here" and he "won't be able to write for a while" before skipping ahead to a football game at the girl's high school.
A variation of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was also done by Jerry Samuels on the same album, titled "The Place Where the Nuts Hunt the Squirrels", where Samuels, towards the end of the track, repeats the line: "they're trying to drive me sane" before the song's fade, in a fast-tracked higher voice. [15]